Student discussion-group leaders were assessed on indices of facilitative empathy, respect, and genuineness, and their behaviors were analysed by Flanders' interaction categories. None of the leaders reached minimally helpful levels of the facilitative conditions, and only two out of five could be categorized as "indirect" leaders. (Author/JA)

This article studies an actual supervisory conference between an assistant department head and a teacher on the department staff. It compares methods of analysis and of interpretation of the interaction between the supervisor and the teacher. (Author/JA)

Positive feedback was found to be more desirable and tended to be more believable than negative feedback. A third group, which received a mixture of positive and negative feedback, rated the T group lowest as a learning experience. No significant differences in cohesion resulted from the different feedback conditions. (Author)

Explains the general concept and technology of interaction analysis, looks at a widely used system as an example of the field" and introduces a new technique. (Author/AA)

It was found that graders who are neat writers are biased by the neatness of an essay, and graders who are messy writers are not influenced by this factor of essay neatness." (Authors)

This article discusses the Personal Interaction Coding Inventory (PICI), a system for simultaneously studying the active and affective conditions blended into one person's responses to another. (Author/EK)

The process of attitude change that results from sensitivity training is likely to be basically emotional. Sensitivity training acts as a catalyst for more effective group communication as the person becomes more aware of the whole process of group discussion. (Author/MS)

Ways of making the educational process more humanizing are discussed. (CK)

Examines the soap opera world by analyzing the conversation and relationship to real-life conversation. Reveals that soap operas provide a subtle blending of the real and the not-real, but that part of the reality lies within the conversation: the relationships of conversants, their topics, and conversational styles. (PD)

Examines whether mothers modify their actions in response to infant facial expression or gaze direction. Subjects were seven pairs of mothers and infants (four to eight months old). Mothers were instructed to induce their infants to smile. (CM)

An extension of inoculation theory, controverted belief, was investigated by manipulating previous attack as part of a group discussion situation in which actual defense of an issue was considered essential for having an inoculating effect. The experimental groups were equally immunized against verbal attacks. (Author)